TY - JOUR
AU - Schmitt, Bernadotte E.
AB - 958 Reviews of Books STUDIES IN SECRET DIPLOMACY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR. By W. W. Gottlieb. (Fair Lawn, N. J.: Essential Books, Inc. 1957. Pp. 430. $6.30.) ALTHOUGH numerous volumes of Russian documents relating to the First World War have been available in German translation since the early thirties, little attention has been paid to them by historians (as distinct from propagandists) until recently. In 1956 Professor C. Jay Smith, jr., published The Russian Struggle for Power, 1914-1917, and now comes Dr. Gottlieb, of the University of Glasgow, with an even more searching study, the first of two volumes. Gottlieb bas been able to use the Italian diplomatic documents from the outbreak of the war to October, 1914, but has not exploited the microfilms of German documents de- posited in the Public Record Office and the National Archives. The topics covered in this volume are the entry of Turkey into the war, the subsequent agreement between the Entente powers about Constantinople and the Straits, and the entry of Italy into the war. No other writer bas recounted these stores in such detail or shown so clearly the relation between them, as, notably, in the spring of 1915 when 
TI - Studies in Secret Diplomacy During the First World War. By W. W. Gottlieb. (Fair Lawn, N. J.: Essential Books, Inc. 1957. Pp. 430. $6.30.)
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/63.4.958
DA - 1958-07-01
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SP - 958
EP - 959
VL - 63
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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